3. Context 3.1 In October 2009 the Committee met with both the Mangaung and Kutama Sinthumule correctional centre management as well as the DCS to be briefed on the PPP centres' operations and challenges. It was agreed that site visits to both centres would be invaluable as far as gaining a better understanding of their operation and the treatment of offenders detained there. Due to time constraints the Committee could however only visit one of these centres in February, and the Mangaung Correctional Centre was selected partly due to a number of inmate uprisings it had experienced in recent months. 3.2 Construction of the New Kimberley Correctional Centre started in November 2006 and has been plagued by numerous delays in its completion, which made completion by November 2008 impossible. It finally started admitting offenders on 11 January 2010, and will continue doing so in phases as from 16 February 2010 when the centre is expected to have been handed over by the contractor. The centre is expected to have been filled to capacity by 15 May 2010. The Committee thought it necessary to visit the centre to gauge its readiness to start operating fully, and given that it may become the prototype for future prison construction in South Africa, to assess to what extent it would deliver on the White Paper's rehabilitation and reintegration ideals. 3.3 Given the large numbers of children detained at Grootvlei Correctional Centre, and its proximity to the Mangaung Correctional Centre, the Committee agreed to also pay a short visit to that Centre, specifically to assess the conditions under which child and juvenile offenders are detained.